Author: Hanighen, Frank C.,
Title: The Secret War.
Description: NY, John Day Co, (1934). 1st ed. VG. Laid in news article from 1935 about publishers rescinding allegation government rules in Great Britain over this book. Article states that British Controlled Oilfields won the libel suit because of the "The Secret War" by Hanighen, an American. The book alleged that the company was not a genuine trading company in oil but a concern completedly controlled by the British government and that its main object was to acquire large tracts of land near the Panama Canal which would be useful to the British government in case of war with the U.S. The plaintiff's counsel completely denied these allegations because according to the laws of Venezuela where the company owned large concessions, such concessions would be forfeited if any foreign government was found to have any interest in them, either by control or otherwise. Counsel for the defendants said that they fully realized now as they had failed to do when the book was examined before publication the injurious character of the allegations. They stated they were satisfied there was not a word of truth in the book's allegations. Hanighen is a 35 yr old New Yorker, the author of "Santa Anna: the Napoleon of the West" and co-author with H. C. Engelbrecht of "Merchants of Death", an exposure of the munitions industry which is credited with having been one of the causes of a Congressional munitions investigation. Index, tanning from news article to ft endpaper. Blue binding, spine faded.

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